Longest Day-Oy Vey! **1/2

Rating: 6/10 (30 May 2006)

Too lengthy for me.
Good in the sense that it discusses the film according to the perspective of each of the allies and Germany.
When Richard Beymer says at the end, "I wonder who won," I wanted to burst out laughing but would never do so because of the seriousness of the subject.
Eddie Albert was too old to play a combat soldier. Nice to have seen him in a scene with Ray Danton. The two of them did not have a scene together in 1955's "I'll Cry Tomorrow."
Hitler was depicted as the maniacal jackass that he was which was good. He literally was asleep at the wheel during the start of the invasion. Kurt Jurgens, as the German high-command soldier, depicted his part quite well.
With an all-star cast, this could not be a study-of-character film and that's what very well may have hurt it. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum are at their patriotic best, but Henry Fonda, as Theodore Roosevelt's son misses the mark since his part is too brief.